The new PlayStation 4 sequel is conflicted, both reveling in its star's violence and trying to distance itself from it.

The writers are moving beyond Margaret Atwood's book—and into familiar territory for news junkies.

Is this normal physics, some type of optical illusion, or just plain magic?

Researchers found—and helped fix—a flaw in Vingcard RFID locks that would let hackers break into any room in hotels around the world.

Storm chaser Jason Weingart has mastered the art.

When one of the first online science journals went under, its papers all disappeared. Enter: Portico, the Wayback Machine for scholarly publications.

Ray Ozzie thinks his Clear method for unlocking encrypted devices can attain the impossible: It satisfies both law enforcement and privacy purists.

Google is adding new features to Gmail, including a snooze button, and soon, the ability for messages to self-destruct.

It's also introducing double-decker buses and all-door boarding.

Spotify, under attack from bigger rivals Apple, Google, and Amazon, adds features to its free service.

Marvel fans have had Thanos thirst for years. These comics reveal why.

Scrub down those keys, wipe the fingerprints off your screen, and delete all the files that have been clogging your tubes.

The news aggregator is focusing on human curation at a time when people distrust the news.

Marble wants to make these things proficient enough to find their own way around the people and the buskers and the intersections.

Opinion: Until consumers can easily control their data, competitors to Facebook won't thrive.

In an excerpt from his book, "Measure What Matters," venture capitalist John Doerr describes introducing "Objectives and Key Results" to Larry Page and Sergey Brin in Google's early days.

Add Alexa to your home, or accessorize your GoPro Hero camera on the cheap this week.

The ride-hailing company announced last week that it plans to become one of the largest voluntary purchasers of carbon offsets in the world.

Facebook's newly public, 27-page community standards document reveals the hard work of balancing toxic content with free speech.

A tea kettle surrounded by rose gold, white leather, and lots of swanky features.

Whether to pay ransomware is a complicated—and costly—calculation.

There are lots of possibilities when it comes to bringing AR into museums like MoMA—but will they embrace them?

The second season of the HBO show opens on a world where the moral truths of the first are gone.

Get ready for more dramatic shifts between severe drought and record-breaking rainfall.

It's more of a tale of how Han became Han, you know?

Scientists reach a milestone in establishing a captive coral population that could reproduce year after year, allowing researchers to perform crucial studies.

Facebook says users own their data and touts its "download your data" tool. But the download doesn't include everything Facebook knows about you.

Companies like Uber and Spotify don’t need IPOs anymore, and that's turning the finance industry on its head.

Last week fired FBI director James Comey went on a massive media tour—and the internet followed every minute of it.

The mythical creature's popularity says a lot about the psychology of password creation.

Stop talking about saving the world, and focus instead on making tangible improvements to people's lives.

The best way to mark the space telescope’s birthday is by looking at nebulae.

The extraterrestrials in author Mercurio D. Rivera's 'The Love War' have a soft spot for humanity.

Xbox hacking, LinkedIn bugs, and more security news this week.

A heat-seeking view of the world could provide one more way for robo-cars to stay out of danger.

Have you noticed patterns in those ephemeral, six-digit tokens? There's a reason for that.

The treatment was fast-tracked for approval, and the first person to use the drug in the US was our writer's son.

In suing Russia, the Trump campaign, and others over the hack of its systems in 2016, the Democratic National Committee has also filled in important timeline details.

The new Blueprints tool makes it easy for anyone to build custom skills for Alexa.

This week, we discuss our personal relationships with our most beloved gadgets.

HBO's futuristic thriller has a whole lot of explaining to do.

One of the best flagship phones of 2017 just got a massive price cut.

Selfies may not be cool anymore, but their spirit lives on—just as it always has.

Kensuke Koike adds nothing and takes away nothing from the portraits he alters—just rearranges the parts.

A report from the National Association of Scholars takes on the reproducibility crisis in science. Not everyone views the group’s motives as pure.

This week, the precision and thunder of artistic exceptionalism were on full display. So were critics.

Plus: Electric scooters invade American cities and Lyft goes after its carbon emissions.

Opinion: Citizens may object to their social media posts being mined by law enforcement, but the practice can keep the public safe.

Detecting an insidious physical attack on your MacBook may often be as simple as alerting you when its lid opens.